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An Ordinance concerning the Arming of the Militia. 1861 36 (1861.4)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0801 and id is 1 raw text is: 36 ORDINANCES, OF THE', VIRGINIA CONVENTION.,' court of appeals; liut the party, if so released on bail, shall not be permitted to leave the commonwealth befdre trial ( and the order of release shall require. the officer to take care that the party does not leave the commonwealth. 5. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage, and be sub- ject to amendment and repeal by the general assembly of Virginia. No. 44.-An ORDINANCE concerning the Arming of the Militia. Passed Say 1, 1801. All the noUng Be it ordained, That the presiding justice of any county in this Justices to be summoned state be and ho is hereby authorized and required, on the application of three or more justices of such county, to cause all the acting justices thereof to he summoned to meet at the courthouse of such county on the next succeeding court day, or on some intermediate, day, not less than five days from tie date of the summons, to take into consideration'and carry into effect the provisions of the net of the general assembly, entitled an act to authorize the county courts and any incorporated city or town to arm the militia of their respec- tive counties, cities and towns, and to provide means therefor, passed January nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Definition of the And whereas there may be a doubt whether the term militia, ter mltlw in said act of assembly, includes the volunteer force as a part of the militia: Be it further ordained, That the said statute be so construed as to embrace the volunteer force as a part of the militia of the several counties, cities and towns of the commonwealth. No. 45.-An ORDINANCE to authorize a Line of Telegraph from Alexan- dria to Winchester, and an Express Line friom Richmond to Baltimore. Passed April 20,1861. 'Telegraph and Be it ordained, That the governor is hereby authorized to contract xproines for a line of telegraph from the city of Alexandria, by way of Stras- burg, to the town of Winchester, and for an express line from the city of Richmond to Baltimore, and to defray the cipenso thereof from the appropriation heretofore made, or from'such loan as may be authorized by this convention.

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